Events from the year 1998 in art.
Events April – Fans of Newcastle United F.C. decorate the newly erected Angel of the North sculpture with a giant replica of Alan Shearer's no. 9 shirt. Police remove the shirt after about twenty minutes. 3 December – 44 governments participating in the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets approve the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art (or "Washington Declaration"), requiring efforts to be made to restore looted art to its original owners or their heirs. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (in the Kulturforum), designed by Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler, opens.
Exhibitions 1 November – Jackson Pollock retrospective opens at MoMA.
Awards Archibald Prize – Lewis Miller, Portrait of Allan Mitelman No 3 Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester Artist of the Year – Wendell Castle Gran Prix d'Antoine Pevsner – Constantine Andreou Hugo Boss Prize – Douglas Gordon Turner Prize – Chris Ofili
Works
Mark Calderon – Floribunda (bronze, Portland, Oregon) Alan Collins – Legacy of Leadership (bronze, Berrien Springs, Michigan) Michael Condron – Martian tripod (Woking, England) Martin Creed – Work No 200: Half the air in a given space Anthony Gormley – Angel of the North David Hockney – A Bigger Grand Canyon Alexander McQueen – Joan (fashion collection and show, London, February 25) Mary Miss – Framing Union Square in the 14th Street–Union Square station in New York City Ron Mueck – Ghost Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry Valerie Otani – Folly Bollards (bronzes, Portland, Oregon) Stephen Robin – Federal Triangle Flowers (sculptures, Washington, D.C.) Edwina Sandys - Eve's Apple permanently installed in Windsor, Ontario Piotr Uklański – The Nazis Rachel Whiteread – Water Tower (New York City)
Publications
A hoax biography, launched on 1 April.
Deaths 23 January – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (b. 1908) 29 January - Karin Jonzen, British sculptor (b. 1914) 7 March – Karen Holtsmark, Norwegian painter (b. 1907) 12 March – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893) 13 March – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920) 3 April – Wolf Vostell, German painter and sculptor (b. 1932) 7 April – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1907) 25 April – Wright Morris, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (b. 1910) 3 May – Otto Bettmann, German American image archivist (b. 1903) 6 May – Sybil Connolly, Welsh-Irish fashion designer (b. 1921) 18 May – Enid Marx, English textile designer (b. 1902) June – Kali, Polish-American portrait painter and Polish Resistance agent during World War II (b. 1918) 8 October – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (b. 1907) 25 October – Dick Higgins, English composer, poet, printer and early Fluxus artist (b. 1938) 3 November – Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1915) 13 November – Claude Serre, French cartoonist (b. 1938) 2 December – Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II (b. 1918) 30 December – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (b. 1919)
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